overthrust

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.
2. verb Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.
3. adjective Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

Similar words

faulting thrutch overstep overruff jump hunch creep overpush boost overtake

Often followed by

belt faulting fault faults block of by mass and